Five women burnt alive as HT wire falls on auto in Satya Sai district

5 agriculture labourers from Guddampalli in Tadimarri mandal of Sri Sathya Sai district were being burnt alive and two some others experienced accidents when an 11-KV High Stress live electric powered wire snapped at the insulator in close proximity to a pole and fell on an autorickshaw carrying 11 women passengers other than the driver, on Thursday morning.

The incident took place at 7 a.m. when the 11, farm labourers from Guddampalli and shut relations, were on their way to Chillakondaiahpalli to operate in a sweet lime farm.

Five of them had been electrocuted and charred. One particular woman K. Gayathri experienced really serious burns although the driver Talari Pothulaiah obtained insignificant accidents. The other 5 escaped unharmed. The car was travelling on a kutcha street along with two other automobiles which crossed the identical spot minutes in advance of.

Whilst the APTRANSCO officers claimed a squirrel had fallen on the wire major to a brief-circuit and the snapping of the wire, local folks reported the wire had a few joints, and sparks have been witnessed on Wednesday night time.

In the meantime, the APSPDCL Chairman and Managing Director H. Harinadh Rao has requested an inquiry into the incident.

The deceased were identified as Kuruba Kanthamma, 50, Konka Lakshmidevi, 42, Konka Ratnamma, 50, Konka Kumari, 30, and K. Ramalakshmi, 28.

The snapped wire is said to have fallen on an iron body being carried on top rated of the car resulting in sparks that activated a fire. With the flames spreading extremely fast in the overloaded car, the girls could not arrive out and bought burnt.

The APTRANSCO officials stated the grid must have tripped at the sub-station automatically, but it unsuccessful and they had to change it off manually following they received the data at 7.10 a.m.